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AGARICUS. 



Hypholoma. The pileus is quite smooth as if delicately gummed. Spores brown-purple. 

 Solitary. Has exactly the habit of Schceff. t. 205 [A. ceniuus). The nearest 

 ally is appoidiculatus. 



On the ground among grass. Apethorpe. May. 



Name — egemclus, poor. Of appearance. B. e^ Br. n. 915. C. Hbk. 11. 

 412. Illust. PI. 605. A. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 296. 



725. A. pilulseformis Bull. — Pileus 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more 

 broad, fuscous when moist, dingy ochraceous when dry, somewhat 

 membranaceous, globose tlieii ex'Pajided., obtuse, even, smooth. 

 Stem 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, fistulose, flexu- 

 ous, smooth, white, naked at the apex. Cortina manifest, woven, 

 in the form of a ring when young. Gills adnexed, easily separat- 

 mg, thin, narrow, linear, arid, white then cinereous, at length 

 becomirig fuscous. 



It is as it were a very small form of A. appendicidatus, but it differs essen- 

 tially in the gills never turning Jlesh-coloi/r. Its mode of growth is almost 

 that of ^. disseminatus, very crowded and fragile. 



On mossy trunks. Rare. 



Berkeley is inclined to consider this the young state of A. hydrophilus Bull, 

 t. 511. Name — pilula, a little ball ; y^rwi?, form. From its shape. Bull. t. 

 112. Fr. Monogr. i. /. 428. Hym. Eur. p. 296. B. 6^ Br. n. 195 1. 



Psilocybe. Subgenus XXXII. PSILOCYBE {^^ix6s, naked ; /cf^/Sr?, head). 

 Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 289. No manifest veil, at least not a woven 



one. Stem somewhat cartilaginous, 

 rigid or tough, tubular, the tube hol- 



low or stuffed, often rooting. Pileus 

 more or less fleshy, smooth, the 

 margin at first incurved. Gills be- 

 coming fuscous or purple. Fr. Hym. 

 Eicr.p. 297. 



Psilocybe corresponds with Colly- 

 bia, Leptonia, and Naucoria. Nearly 

 all the species grow on the ground, 

 and are gregarious, here and there 

 casspitose. Inodorous. None are 

 edible. 



I. Tenaces (te?iax, tough). Veil not es- 

 sential, rarely conspicuous. Stem thick- 

 skinned, flexile, most frequently coloured. 

 Pileus with a pellicle, most frequently slight- 

 ly viscid in wet weather, becoming somewhat pale. Colour of pileus bright. 



XXXII f. Agariciis {Fsilocyiic) s/a 

 diceus. One-third natural size. 



